A woman has been arrested and charged with assault after allegedly trying to shove abortion pills down her pregnant teenage daughter’s throat.
According to this, Juana Idalia Sanchez, 49, of Laredo, Texas, got her hands on some abortion pills after finding out that her 16-year-old daughter was pregnant. It’s not clear where exactly she obtained the medication, but it seems likely that she ordered the pills via the mail, which wouldn’t have necessitated her bringing her daughter in for an appointment or an ultrasound, and because it is now illegal to have an abortion beyond about six weeks of pregnancy in the state of Texas.
The Laredo Morning Times reports the daughter told police her mother “got upset and asked her to have an abortion.” When she refused, she said her mother “chased her around the home causing her to fall on her stomach,” according to Sanchez’s arrest affidavit.
The mother then reportedly pinned her pregnant daughter to the floor and shoved abortion-inducing pills into her mouth, but that her daughter managed to spit them out.
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Live Action cited a recent BBC survey that found 15 percent of post-abortive women said they had been pressured or forced to have an abortion, with another study by the Elliot Institute estimating it to be as high as 64 percent.
The disturbing news comes as doctors in blue states with permissive abortion laws have begun mailing abortion pills to women in states with abortion restrictions, making it easier for abusers like Sanchez to get their hands on abortion-inducing medication and coerce - or even force - a pregnant mother into taking it. In February, a Collin County, Texas judge ordered a doctor in New York, where abortion is legal through 24 weeks and later if the mother’s “health” is at risk, to stop prescribing abortion pills to Texas residents and ordered her to pay a $100,000 fine.
Despite making it easier for women to violate state laws, and despite paving the way for abusers, traffickers, pimps, and rapists to force abortions to hide their crimes, pro-abortion doctors have vowed to continue to prescribe and provide abortion pills via mail to women in states where abortions aren’t allowed, or where abortion clinics have been shut down.